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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

A human life is a story told by God.
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Condolences Grief Human Life Sympathy
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
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Duckling Eggs Swans Ugly
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
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Princess Sea Stupid
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
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Glorious Happiness Knowing Stars Years
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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Altogether Beauty Created Some
There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn’t do it–he knew better how to use his money than that.
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Littles might Money Street Use
He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.
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Gun Heart Morning
Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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Ask Me More Understanding
Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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Answers Giving Stupid
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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Men Wiser Wisest
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change.
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Change Legs Tears War
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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Enjoy Improvement Life Self
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Flower Nature Philosophical
Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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Higher Song Thinking
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
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Air Clear Dust Glitter Stars
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
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Age Fleeting Thinking